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New look for Cerebra’s Legal Advice Project

We are launching a new look for our Legal Advice Project which provides practical solutions to the legal problems families face.

Our Legal Entitlements Research Project has been going from strength to strength since it started in October 2013 and we’ve learned a lot about the problems parents face in getting access to services for their children.

The past few months have been a particularly eventful time for the project. Professor Luke Clements, who runs the scheme, recently moved from Cardiff University to a new post as Professor of Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds. We’re delighted that the project will continue under Professor Clements’ direction at Leeds, which has a pioneering Centre for Disability Studies (CDS), bringing together scholars from a range of academic disciplines across the University. You can read more about the University’s ground-breaking work in a Disability News Service article. We’re grateful to colleagues at Cardiff University for all their hard work and commitment in establishing the project and we look forward to having other opportunities to work together again in future.

We’ve also welcomed a new Research Assistant to the team at Leeds, Sorcha McCormack, who will be working with Professor Clements to develop the project.

In light of these developments, we feel that this is the perfect time to relaunch the project with a new name – the Legal Entitlements and Problem-Solving (LEaP) Project. We’re committed to providing practical solutions to the legal problems families face and we wanted our new name to reflect our problem-solving approach. The project is all about making research relevant to families in their everyday lives.

We’ve also launched a new look website, with links to our Problem-Solving Toolkit, template letters, parent guides and other resources. We aim to add more resources to the site as the project develops. Our goal is to help parents get the legal information they need to address problems in getting access to services.